About a dozen knitters got together in Downers Grove Sunday to create Melt the Ice hats – a red beanie-shaped cap topped with a braided tassel – as a quiet form of protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The Melt the Ice knit-along also raised more than $500 for organizations supporting immigrant rights. The event was hosted by the Downers Grove Township Democrats and was held at their office, 908 Curtis St., in Downers Grove. Proceeds from the event benefitted the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights and the Young Center, an organization founded in Chicago in 2004 in...